Hide PHP Parameter from URL

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How can I hide the PHP GET parameters from a URL?

Here is how the URL looks like

../iar7.php?size1=&size=TURF&R3=R3&txtsize=&txttreadd=&small=&large=&smallsw=&largesw=&smallrc=&largerc=&scc=&lcc=&2t1=&2t2o=&2t3o=&2t1=1.36&2t2=1&2t3=5

I want to show only ../iar7.php.

I think we need more clarification on what you're trying to achieve. It's easy to make assumptions here. — Scuzzy, Dec 24 '15 at 23:17
although you had some follow up questions, I would appreciate if you could accept my answer since it fixed the problem you described in your original question — Pabs123, Dec 25 '15 at 00:18

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 24 '15 at 23:13

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Since you're using a GET, all your payload will be shown as query params. If you would like to hide them perhaps try using a POST instead.

You can read up on some of the differences between the methods here.

edited Dec 24 '15 at 23:13

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answered Dec 24 '15 at 23:10

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here is what my form looks like `
` so if edit that in to `
` will fix it?
– user5225773 Dec 24 '15 at 23:12
simply add ``method='post'`` and it should send the parameters in the body instead of url! – Pabs123 Dec 24 '15 at 23:13
I think you should mention that you need to use `$_POST` to obtain the query parameters. – Willem Van Onsem Dec 24 '15 at 23:14
as Willem mentioned, you will need to use ``$_POST`` to access the parameters by name, for example ``$_POST['size']`` – Pabs123 Dec 24 '15 at 23:16
@Pabs123 Yes that works but i have also use this link on the page which takles you to the next page which still shows `echo"
";echo'';echo"
"; How can i update that – user5225773 Dec 24 '15 at 23:19
Ok I think I understand what you are asking. Instead of using href, set an onclick which submits the form which you have just updated, similar to [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8398726/using-the-post-method-with-html-anchor-tags) – Pabs123 Dec 24 '15 at 23:23
I have three pages On the first page there is a form when i submit i get result in a table each result has a link when you click on the link takes you to the second page the link look like ` ";echo'';` When i put the `method='post'` fixes the url on the first page but how can i fix this May be changing `$_‌REQUEST` to `$_‌POST`? – user5225773 Dec 24 '15 at 23:30
`$_POST` and `$_REQUEST` are used to access the request's content, so it will not alter how the information is sent. Try setting an onclick to post the form as mentioned in my last comment, otherwise there is not much you can do about an anchor using `GET` – Pabs123 Dec 24 '15 at 23:37
There is no form to send after the fist form submit i am creating a link based on the variables already submitted on the first one – user5225773 Dec 24 '15 at 23:47
If you already have all the variables, set up a form with hidden inputs and set up the anchor to submit this form using its ``onClick`` property. [Here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3915917/make-a-link-use-post-instead-of-get) is some more information on this technique, although I have already linked you to an example. – Pabs123 Dec 24 '15 at 23:55

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 24 '15 at 23:12

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If you are using forms, your html form would look like this:

<form method='post' action='/someurl'>
...

answered Dec 24 '15 at 23:12

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 24 '15 at 23:18

As already said before, there are two methods to send data: using GET (which is encoded in the URL), or using POST which means the data is sended as additional payload in the HTTP request. You cannot hide the URL parameters from the GET request method, simply because it is the way GET is supposed to work.

You can do this by specifying this in your <form> tag in the HTML source code:

<form action='the.url.com/path/file.php' method='post'>
    <!-- ... -->
</form>

Furthermore I want to add that you have to note that in order to process the data in your PHP file, you will have to call $_POST instead of $_GET.

Hide PHP Parameter from URL

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